Plate code

EBJ Plate Number Meaning: Ezza-North, Ebonyi

The EBJ plate number is registered in Ezza-North Local Government Area, Ebonyi. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.

Nigerian number plate with the EBJ code — Ezza-North, Ebonyi
A plate issued in Ezza-North carries the EBJ code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Ezza North registers as EBJ. The 2006 census recorded 145,619 residents over 305 km², roughly 477 to the square kilometre. The three letters are the geographic part of the plate and stay legible in that sense for the life of the registration.

EBJ Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the EBJ code that our own checks returned data for, most recent first. The make and the colour are shown exactly as the record gave them.

Plate Make Colour Checked
EBJ-128AA Peug. 504 S/C Custom
EBJ-236AA LAND ROVER JEEP BLACK
EBJ-305AA TACOMA ASH
EBJ-419AA Cherokee Jeep Custom
EBJ-507AA NISSAN BLUE BIRD CUSTOM
EBJ-628AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER CUSTOM
EBJ-741AA TOYOTA CAMRY CUSTOM
EBJ-853AA TOYOTA COROLLA CUSTOM
EBJ-956AA TOYOTA CAMRY CUSTOM
EBJ-222AA Toyota Land Cruiser Custom
EBJ-123AA Toyota Corolla S/Car Custom
EBJ-987AA PEUGEOT 406 CUSTOM

No holder name appears here, and none ever will: the Federal Road Safety Corps does not release registration holders to the public, so neither do we.

What EBJ Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 7 of 12 records

Counted from the 12 EBJ plates we hold. It describes what we have seen, not the vehicle register — and the colour is the paint on the car, which is a different question from the colour of the plate itself. What plate colours mean

The District Behind EBJ

Local Government Area
Ezza-North
State
Ebonyi
Headquarters
Ebiaji
Population
145,619 (2006)
Area
305 km²

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the EBJ Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so EBJ places the paperwork in Ezza-North. It does not follow the car afterwards: a vehicle sold across state lines keeps its plate until it is re-registered, which is why a EBJ plate away from Ebonyi is a question for the seller rather than a finding in itself.

The letters also say nothing about the holder, the model or the history of the vehicle. Colours and special series are a separate system, explained on the code hub; what the car itself has been through — auction lots, damage, mileage at sale — is recorded against its VIN and travels with the car even when the plate changes.

Questions about the EBJ plate number

What does the EBJ plate number mean?

EBJ is the registration code of Ezza-North Local Government Area in Ebonyi. A vehicle wearing it was registered there; the three digits after the letters are its serial inside that LGA, and the last two letters are the series.

Which state is a EBJ plate number from?

Ebonyi. The code identifies the local government area — Ezza-North — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to EBJ in Ebonyi

Codes either side of EBJ in the Ebonyi directory.

All Ebonyi plate number codes

Have a whole EBJ plate, not just the code?

The lookup takes the full plate and returns the local government area behind it. For the history of the vehicle — auction records, damage, mileage and photographs — check it by VIN.